Security Cleared Contracts in Northern Ireland

Security Clearance
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 15 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.43% 8.05% 2.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.79% 25.53% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 4
10th Percentile £134 £270 £188
25th Percentile £135 £372 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £300
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +62.50% -
75th Percentile £530 £625 £350
90th Percentile £625 £675 £440
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.63
Median hourly rate - - £16.25
75th Percentile - - £16.88
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.95 £57.33 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.13% -4.46% +14.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

Security Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 56 47 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 35.22% 31.54% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 14
10th Percentile £135 £205 £172
25th Percentile £200 £328 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £516 £413
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +25.15% -4.62%
75th Percentile £523 £634 £475
90th Percentile £588 £663 £500
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £22.50 - -
25th Percentile £24.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.13 £12.25 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year +162.24% -11.93% -26.79%
75th Percentile £36.84 £15.63 £14.65
90th Percentile £44.65 £31.88 £15.99
UK median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim -5 15 £475 -2.56% 13
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Anypoint
1 4 (26.67%) Mule
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) OCI
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (6.67%) GIS
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
1 4 (26.67%) EPoS Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) EPoS Field Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Field Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) MuleSoft Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Payroll Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) SOAP
2 4 (26.67%) JSON
2 4 (26.67%) OpenAPI
2 4 (26.67%) RAML
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
2 4 (26.67%) Swagger
2 4 (26.67%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) EntireX
3 1 (6.67%) JMS
3 1 (6.67%) JWT
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SAML
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) EPoS
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 4 (26.67%) API Development
3 4 (26.67%) API Management
3 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (26.67%) Break/Fix
3 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
3 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (26.67%) Microservices
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) DataWeave
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) MuleSoft
2 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Software AG
4 1 (6.67%) webMethods